The bid to oust the House Speaker starts - 2024 Candidate/General Election - Biden Era

Guardian: Reports "  Matt Gaetz introduces motion to oust Kevin McCarthy as House speaker....Far-right congressman files motion after expressing outrage at speaker’s bipartisan effort to avoid government shutdown  "

Lets Get Real:

This is all about Matt Gaetz wanting to get rid of the Speaker, because they do not like each other, its personal.   Matt Gaetz did state that he was worried about the national debt, he has a point, but everyone knows its personal hatred, there for he has only a few supporters, but all he needs is 5 members of the Republican majority to support him, then the Speaker it out, as long as Democrats support the motion, will they sit on their ands or save the Speaker because of the Ukraine.  politics at this micro level in fun, no one can be trusted!! 

Update:  

The Speaker was ousted , the first time in history, 8 of fellow Republicans voted against him and the Democrats took short term pleasure in getting rid of the Speaker, the results is that the House is on pause, and Former Speaker Pelosi has lost her private office.  One of the candidates to replace McCarthy has already said that he opposes further funding for the Ukraine.  As Spiderman says, with great power comes responsibility, the Democrats would have been better off with a weakened Speaker in debt to the Democrats.  Thus the Democrats and Republicans have failed at basic politics. 

Will the US House pass funding for the Ukraine ? - 2024 Candidate /General Election 2024

Sky News - Live blog: Reports in its 11pm post the following, " 

Biden 'fully expects' renewed Ukraine funding

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Lets Get Real:

One can see an outline of a DEAL, POTUS get his funding, but the Democrats do not help the right wing of the Republican Party get rid of the Speaker, and the deal should include border protection, that might be a hard thing for the left to agree too.  Biden is an old hand at making DEALS, lets  see how the sausage is made on the Hill.   Biden must be aware that funding could be an issue in 2024, he has to stress it through 2024, its about Democracy and defeating Putin in the Ukraine and preventing WW3 over Poland and the Baltic States.  Also Biden needs to get his polls up, otherwise he could lose to Trump, that would be massive disaster to the US and Western Europe.  Its late for the Biden Campaign to get its adverts out, Putin might try to help Trump, by stating he would agree peace terms with Trump in the White House, that might find favour with the US voters.

Trump in COURT TOAY - 2024 Candidate/General Election 2024 - Biden Era

BBC News: Reports " Defiant Trump turns up at $250m New York fraud trial to blast 'scam'....... Former President Donald Trump has attacked a judge and prosecutor in a day of courtroom drama as he attended the opening of a fraud trial that could threaten his business empire.  "

Lets Get Real:

Of all the Courts that Trump faces, its this civil trial that gets to him, his image is his money and the success he has had in business.  The prospect of jail time does not seem to unnerve him much, that will never happen, the job of the Secret Service ,is to protect the President and the former President for up to 10 years.  The Secret Service could never allow Trump to be taken to a prison, that would make him a martyr on the right wing of the Republican Party, and the Democrats would pay a heavy price, there in no Gerald Ford in the White House who could  stop these Federal Trials with a stroke of his pen.  The 2024 match up looks like is it on, in less one of the Republican candidates can take Iowa or New Hampshire in 2024.  Trump would a disaster in a 2nd Term, in less US voters want to put two fingers up to the press and the liberal elite, it could happen.

US Government Shutdown CLOSE - 2024 Candidate/General Election 2024

Update on 2nd Presidential Debate at the Reagan Presidential Library - Ambassador Haley did well, there is general agreement on that, she was followed by Governor DeSantis and Senator Scott.  

BBC News: Reports " Prospects dim as US scrambles to avoid government shutdown.....The US inched closer to a government shutdown after hardline Republicans rejected a last-minute funding deal in the House of Representatives. "

Lets Get Real:

The Conservative RIGHT in the Republican Majority are right on one issue, the borders need to be controlled, one of the Anchors on CNN even got that, the liberal elite, press, liberal left in the Congress want open borders, no Country can have that, it destroyed the Roman Empire and is causing problems in the UK and Europe.  The borders need  to be secured, the Ukraine needs US and Western support, and Putin needs to be taken down by the West, like Reagan took down the USSR in the long term.  President Biden is only getting this blog's support for that reason, the Republicans need to find their inner Reagan. 

UPDATE: The US Government was not shutdown, the Speaker made a deal with the Democrats, the stop gap measure does not have funding for the Ukraine.   The Speakers job is on the line, will the extreme right vote to remove him, and how will the Democrats vote.  Interesting few days on the Hill.

2nd Republican Presidential Debate AT the Reagan Presidential Library - 2024 Candidate/2024 General Election

The Hill: Reports "  Here’s how 2024 Republicans are preparing for the second GOP debate ....... Seven qualified Republican presidential candidates are set to take the stage in Simi Valley, Calif., on Wednesday night for the party’s second primary debate, and the contenders are spending the run-up in the gym, with their families, and listening to music. "

Lets Get Real:

The 2nd Republican Debate is at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, it normally has the candidates standing by Reagan's Air Force One, former President Trump is snubbing the event, that is enough for the Republicans not to vote for him.  The former President is in Michigan, he wants Union votes for 2024.  The blog expecting good things from Governor Haley and Senator Tim Scott, they have to come out fighting, go after Trump and get a good 2nd in either Iowa or New Hampshire, otherwise it will be Biden vs Trump again, and all good people will have to vote for Biden, yes this blog knows he is gaga, but he supports the Ukraine, the real candidates in the Republican race have to come out against Trump over his weak policy towards Russia and the Ukraine, Reagan would  have supported the Ukraine and been tougher than Biden on Russia. 

Trump to visit Michigan to gather support from striking car workers - 2024 Candidate/2024 General Election

Guardian - Live Blog: Reports in its 5.57 post the following, " Targeting working-class voters in the key battleground, the former president will attempt to upstage Tuesday’s appeal by Biden to union members on the frontline of the United Auto Workers (UAW) strike, which is turning into a proxy struggle for next year’s presidential election. "

Lets Get Real:

On the left you have a old politician in President Biden, on the right you have a very rich Donald Trump, neither of them understand the WORKER, Biden is missing the point, the working class want to know what you will do for them in the future, not that you have been a life long supporters of the Unions, when was the last time Biden had to worry about food on the table, he has spent most of his adult life in the US Senate or the American Government as Vice - President and now as President.  Thus in Trump's case he was born in a rich family, his father helped him out when he was in financial trouble, thus born rich and become rich and then a TV Celebrity and then President in 2016.  This blog would not trust either of them, it will be interesting to see polls from Michigan, who is the better con man, Biden or Trump!!! 

Is Biden being Presidential or a Left Wing Populist by joining a Picket line today ? - 2024 Candidate/2024 General Election

Guardian - Live Blog: Reports in its 2.47pm post the following, " In the more than 150 years since workers first formed labor unions in the United States, no American president has ever stood “in solidarity” with workers on a picket line.....Biden’s predecessors were often far more hostile toward strikers. In 1894, Grover Cleveland dispatched federal troops to help shut down a railroad strike; during the Korean war in 1952, Harry Truman seized the nation’s steel mills in response to a steelworkers’ strike; and in 1981, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 striking air traffic controllers. "

Lets Get Real:

The simple question I ask, do you see Presidents Kennedy or Reagan going on a picket line, lets recall that Reagan was ONLY President to have been President of his Union,  the screens actors guild.  As above shows Reagan actually fired 11,345 air traffic controllers when the went on strike, Reagan was a tough President but fair, he gave them notice of that fact and the day they had to return.  This got the notice of the USSR, they saw that Reagan was a tough President, he was not weak like Jimmy Carter.  The American voter likes to see some regal image of the Presidency, walking the picket line is not regal, makes you like a politician desperate for votes, and Biden could find himself needing the workers in these  State to give enough electoral voters in 2024.  Well if it a choice between  Biden or Trump, it will have to be Biden, as long as he supports the Ukraine, and does not go gaga on the job.